Do AI agents have a place in programmatic advertising?

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If programmatic advertising is already automated, then what’s the point of integrating AI agents?

That’s the question I had on my mind heading into this month’s Digiday Programmatic Marketing Summit in New Orleans, La. And it’s the question I put to a host of programmatic experts in attendance, from agencies to ad tech vendors. Their answers varied, but ultimately the consensus was that AI agents do have a role to play in programmatic advertising workflows, albeit a very specific one.

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